Brief Word About Massachusetts

Given the little knowledge I have of what the election was like there, I was really surprised that a Republican candidate would win a Senate election in the state of Massachusetts. However from the little that I now know about Scott Brown, I have to say that I am not all that surprised and am actually happy that he was elected. I think that the current health care legislation really needs to be debated and well thought out and that honestly was not going to happen without breaking the Dems' magic number of 60 senators. He also seems to actually be qualified to be a senator given his academic background and his time spent as a state senator in MA. His platform makes him seem like someone who supports sustainable energy (something that is really important now and in the future) and reforming education and making the system as strong as we possibly can. Having said this, he and I clearly do not see eye to eye on several issues but he is the senator that MA and the U.S. need right now to ensure that any reforms to health care are not done too shabbily and actually will benefit the people of this country by hopefully bringing costs down and making insurance and medical services affordable for people to access and utilize.